Propaganda from films
What sides (parties, teams, groups, opponents) are there? Names – official and unofficial. Your job is to “sell” one of these…
Good Side – The Resistance
.Kyle Reese
.John Conner (Mentions)
.Sarah Conner
Bad Side – Skynet (Terminator Program)
For each side list the following:
What is the side’s role? What are their aims? Why are they aiming for this – how will it help them?
Good Side: In the future the Resistance are on the verge of victory. But when the Terminators go back in time to kill Sarah Conner. They want to stop the murder so that her son could exist and lead the resistance. The resistance are fighting for human kind, so they can take back their world from the cyborgs. By going back in time so they can stop the terminator model from killing their leaders mother, otherwise her son doesn’t exist and the resistance would’ve never been created.
Bad Side: Skynet and their Terminator models in the future are failing due to the resistance. Their aims was to send the terminator model (Arnold Schwarzenegger) into the future to Kill Sarah Conner, so John Conner didn’t exist and then they can carry on with their plans.
What equipment, property, assets, do they have. How does this help them?
Good Side: Kyle Reese defends himself by using firepower to kill the Terminators. As he is the past with no way of getting back, Reese hasn’t got any assets but Sarah Conner who has no way of defending herself as he has to protect her.
Bad Side: The Terminators have normal guns such as machine guns and they use cars aswell as humans do.
What are the characteristics of this side? What are their strengths and weaknesses?
Good Side: As the Good Side is full of flesh and bone, but they are better learners than the Terminators. Their weaknesses are that they can die easily but they have emotions unlike the Terminators so that helps achieve what they want.
Bad Side: the Terminators are created by Skynet, a computerised source that has created metal framed skeleton disguised in human flesh. The Terminators are less clever than the humans, they have no emotions but they have a sturdy frame which is almost impenetrable.
How can you make their strengths into real selling points? (ie “cruelty” could be sold as “firmness” and “strength”). This is key so work on this
Good Side: Revolution- Taking back what’s once theirs.
Strength- They have the strength and the determination to kill the Terminators.
Protective- The Resistance protect their kind.
Bad Side: Power- The Bad Side seem to get more power than the Good Side. They have more terminators than humans.
Dangerous- having no emotion as it was taken away once they were human they turned into emotionless killing machines.